Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-18


ing up for the past week.
Mr.. VIM. Powell goes to Grand Prairie
.bis morning to deliver some stock and to
see what Texas stock ranch is like.
Corn & Wootep, Fort Worth, fed TWEEN
4y-one cars OF csttle at Baird this week.
The cattle are going to New Mexico.
baird Star.
Following is list OF cattle shipped
through Fort Worth during the past week
and fed st Polk Bro IS yards: j. Funks,
two carloads, to A. J. Sykes; William
Mayes, one carload; J. f. Mayes, one
carload: Ryburn, four carloads; Thorp &
Co., four carloads, and two cars from
Ballinger to Kansas City. The stock was
all in first-class condition. The shippers
find very good run from Ballinger to
Fort Worth for the first feed.
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A gentleman lately down from the In
dian nation, says the number of cattle
feeding in the nation this year is very
small in comparison with what has been
in former years. In Paul's Valley, where
usually there are hundreds Of head fed
the gentleman could not hear of single
man who wss doing anything in that way
this year. The fact is, there is scarcely
sny one in the nation who cares to feed
at the price corn is now bringing there,
for that crop this year has been COM
plete failure in the Indian Territory.
The following cattle were received and
sold at Polk Bros stock yards during the
past week: Four cows, weighing alto
.gether $685. pounds, ct 81 25, sold to
Hardcastle; So hogs, weighing 140 pounds
each, sold to Kemper ct He; hogs,
weighing 240 pounds each, sold to KEN
per at 44c.; II hogs, averaging 205
pounds, cold to Palace market at 45c.;
3 hogs to Brown Bros. at 4dc.; 81 head
of COWS sold to Miller at $3.50; so sheep
sold at lie. A carload of hogs passed
through from the Nation for Texas mar
kets.
A list was obtained last night from Mr..
Powell, the Illinois Hereford breeder, of
the sales or fac stock he has made in
North Texas. Mr.. Powell prefsced by
saying he had found the market at Fort
Worth superior even to what he had been
led to believe it to be. He has done bet
ter than he expected. So good market
does he consider it that he says he would
sell out in Illinois and move bis business
here If he could dispose Of his northern
property st q reasonable figure. Follow
ing is the list: To o. B. HeW-
lit, Dsllas-Dolly's Leader, by
Leader, he by Grove 3, dame
Dolly Warden s; Miss Coat, by
ProsY. dame Mermaid by Merry Monarch;
Rosebud by Prosy; Young Tulip, by
Conqueror. son of Old Success; Martha,
by Scion, grandson Of the celebrated Lord
Wilton; Magnolia, by Cyrus, he by
Horatius; Bull So, 0y Thickset. To c. c.
Galloway, KiIdsre-Hereford bull, Short
legs, by Lord Derby 2. To j
z. Looney, Fort Worth-Heifer
Martha, by Thicket. To J L. Wood
Shamrock, 2; Grandson Of Grove, 8;
by ProsY; Rosa, by Prosy. To 4. D.
Berry-Duke OF P, ,, by Prosy. The
prices OF this stock have averaged S125.
Mr. James 81. Campbell, head of the
large commission house bearing his name,
OF Chicago Kansas City and St. Louis,
was,seen a1rne PIckWick yesterday, and
having been asked to give his views re-
garding live stock interests generally, he
proceeded:
"You must know live In Chicago, and,
doing business in all the large mar
kets, have opportunities of seeing what
kind of stock is being put up for sleugh-
ter. Our firm has handled large num-
Der of Texas and southern cattle during
the last year. l have never seen before
so many COWS and calves and young
cattle as we have had on the market this
year nor have I ever seen such low prices
In the history of the trade. l think there
must come an end to this thing. History
repeats itself. In 1877, '78 and 10 there
were large numbers of cattle going to
market, much the same as there are now.
But boom set In in 's1 and great many
r.isers, thinking the good times
would hold out, shipped their
steer cattle to be fed up in the
country around Chicago, while they i'm
ported she cattle from sll over the coun-
try so as to profit by the boom. 1t is
fact, generally overlooked but not the
less true, that there are more cattle east
of the Mississippi river than there are
west of 1t. The country is thickly settled,
comparatively, in the east, and every
fcrmer has few head of stock that in the
aggregate stack up to more than the large
herds OF the west. Now these eastern
farmers do not pretend to keep their cattle
for beef, out for dairy purposes, and
calves are sent TO the markets of the
large cities at the age OF 8 month |
or SO, for local consumption. |
In 1881, however, $50 great was |
the faith put in the continuance of good |
times for the beef growers that these |
heller calves were picked up all over the |
east and sent west, and 1 would not be |
eYaggerating II / said 100000 head of |
young she cattle were sent west in that |
year. Not only this, but the stockmen |
sent out reports OF their aourishing con-
dition 10 England and Scotland and the |
eastern states, with such effect that large |
capitalists began to put their money in |
the stockraising business. What mas |
been the RESULT The product of cattle
has been greater than the demand |
and low prices and depressed markets
have ruled. The prices have been going |
down for three years and growers have,
through that time. been sending to market
COWS and calves and cutting down their |
herds In exerv way. There have been |
immense numbers of calves shipped TO |
Chicago In the last year, and there were |
a. many Is 10000 shipped from there 70
New York city. There were more calves
consumed in '67 than in the previous
three years pot together.
"While the markets have been over
stocked with immature and half fed na-
tive cattle there has always been q good |